Men might usefully confront in Bervoets a writerly intelligence at once so tender and so willing to look into the abyss.W hen he launched his takeover of Twitter earlier this year, Elon Musk sparked consternation by declaring he would loosen the social media platform’s content moderation policies – a move that could set Twitter on a collision course with the EU’s digital regulators. The dreamlike climax of the final pages is beautifully wrought. Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Sunday Times The setting alone is compelling and has always been in need of an accomplished novelist’s attention.
With a few deft strokes manages to incorporate all of the ills of social media into one concise story.
the unreliable narrator gives it a strong literary heartbeat - and it’s richly suspenseful too. Siobhan Murphy, The Times A chilling page-turner. a glimpse of the foetid underbelly of the internet and a sobering consideration of who is deciding what we see, and at what cost. 'An acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today' - Ling Ma, author of SeveranceĪcid-dipped novella. 'Fast paced and thrilling, violent and nightmarish' - Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things 'Taut as a thriller, sharp as a slug of ice-cold vodka' - Irish Times Translated from the original Dutch by Emma Rault. How long before the moderators own morals bend and flex under the weight of what they see?Įxamining the toxic world of content moderation, the novel forces us to ask: what is right? What is normal? And who gets to decide? Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend - and for the first time in her life, Kayleigh’s future seems bright.īut soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. That’s why she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn’t allowed to mention. To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst - but Kayleigh needs money. We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful and gripping story about who or what determines our world view. 'A glimpse of the foetid underbelly of the internet' - The Times superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle' - Ian McEwan, author of Atonement 'The dank underside of social media, its cruelty and delusions.
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